1. Operating Systems I CS 3013

2. Topics F Background F Admin Stuff F Motivation F Objectives F Operating Systems!

3. Professor Background F Dr. Mark Claypool (professor, “Mark”) F Systems guy –operating systems –distributed systems –collaborative systems –(multimedia performance) F TRS-DOS, MS-DOS, Win95, Solaris F WindowsNT and Linux

4. Student Background F Who are you? –Name –Class (freshman, junior …) –Major (CS, EE, Basket Weaving...) F C experience F Java experience F Unix experience F Operating Systems? F Other

5. Syllabus Stuff F http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/courses/3013-A99/ F TAs: Ganga Kannan, Sirisha Jasti F Office hours : Monday: 10-11, 12-1 Tuesday: 10-11 Wednesday: 11-12, 2-3 Thursday: Friday: 10-11, 4-5 F Email F Text Book (sigh)

6. Course Structure F Prerequisites –C programming (must) –Machine organization (recommended) –Unix (recommended) F Grading –Exams –Projects –Homework –Attendance (kidding)

7. Exams F 2 exams F 35% of grade F Non-cumulative F Closed-note F Closed-book F Closed-friend F Cheat-sheet?

8. Projects F 4 projects F Implementation using OS concepts –not of F C, Unix –C++ Ok –Java! F Project 0 –turn in via email

9. Slides F On the Web F PPT and PDF F “Today’s Slides” –Say, 2:00-2:30 –Will send email

10. Why This Class? F WPI CS requirements –“core course” for majors F Combines CS concepts –algorithms, languages, data-structures, hardware –system design w/tradeoffs F Better use of the computer F C programming in Unix environment –Networks, OS II (Distributed Computing Systems), WebWare F Fun!